The Fall of the Aztecs: The Festival of Blood (TRIH ep 388, part 5)
1520 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part series on Hernán Cortés and the fall of the Aztec Empire. The episode recounts Cortés’s risky return to the Gulf coast, his defeat of Pánfilo de Nárvaez (winning over Narváez’s men), and his reinforced march back to Tenochtitlan in 1520.
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Around 1520
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Mona Lisa (1503)